Focused crawls are collections of frequently-updated webcrawl data from narrow (as opposed to broad or wide) web crawls, often focused on a single domain or subdomain.
Implementation of the model used in the paper Protest Activity Detection and Perceived Violence Estimation from Social Media Images (ACM Multimedia 2017)
Protests and agitations have long used as means for showing dissident towards social, political and economic issues in civil societies. In recent years we have witnessed a large number of protests across various geographies. Not to be left behind by similar trends in the rest of the world, South Africa, in recent years have witnessed a large number of protests. This paper uses the English text description of the protests to predict their time spans/durations. The descriptions consist of multiple causes of the protests, courses of actions etc. Next we used unsupervised (topic modeling) and supervised learning (decision trees) to predict the duration of protests. The results are very promising and close to 90% of accuracy in early predicting of the duration of protests.
Automatically places the FreeMyInternet banner from FreeMyInternet.com on your WordPress website. The blogging community will be organising a protest and online black out on Thursday 6th June 2013, 0001 to 6th June 2013, 2359 against the new licensing by the Media Development Authority of Singapore.
An app and backend server which allows protesters to get updates about the events happening around them. Created for Disrupt the District 2017. It's not quite finished, and it's made to use a local copy of information, which I used instead of the backend for the final presentation.
